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Parker Family Letters

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Kinsman May 4th /53, Wednesday
My Dear Brother,
I have delayed answering your last for
some time, because I wished to know where we would
all be this summer, before I wrote. I think it is decided
now, so you may expect a long letter from Miss Hannah
Parker, the "School marm." I have been examined and got
a certificate for a year, and shall probably commence
teaching in the Laughlin district next Monday. The
school is very small, not exceeding fifteen or twenty schol-
ars, and not very forward, so I think I shall succeed, Mother
and Myra will stay at home, We are all well at present,
and hope these few lines [underlined few. . . lines] will find you enjoying the
same blessing.
How many letters have you received from us? I have
written you five, I directed two to San Francisco, two to
Stockton, and sent one by William Cochran, The last I
wrote was on January 10th, since that, I have not written
because I did not know where you were, They did not
send me your letters, so I never read the two last you
wrote me until I cam home, now I shall correspond
a little more regularly, and I expect you will all improve
very fast, you ought to at the least,- I have not been
attending school since Jan 28th, since that, I have spent
two weeks in Greenville and the rest of the time in Gus-
tavus, Uncle Hezlep is quite sick, I am afraid he will not
live many years, the rest of the family are well, they have
all been very kind to me during the past winter, Uncle
especially, and I shall not forget it.
Did you know that we are the descendants of the Earl
of Clarendon, whose daughter was a greene? and that we
own a portion of Hyde Park in London, worth fifty
millions of dollar, besides Bank Stock etc.? I suspect we is [underlined suspect. . . is]
but I will try to tell the story without the flourishes, In
the days of the Puritans, three brothers by the name of
Hyde, emigrated from England to America, This proper-
ty belonged to them, and all the Hydes in America
are their descendants. In Feb a Hyde meeting was held
in Boston, Mr. Lucien Jones represented the Hartford
branch of the family, by records etc. they traced the rela-
tionship and now they must find which was the oldest
of the three brothers, and to his descendants the property

Kinsman May 4th /53, Wednesday
My Dear Brother,
I have delayed answering your last for
some time, because I wished to know where we would
all be this summer, before I wrote. I think it is decided
now, so you may expect a long letter from Miss Hannah
Parker, the "School marm." I have been examined and got
a certificate for a year, and shall probably commence
teaching in the Laughlin district next Monday. The
school is very small, not exceeding fifteen or twenty schol-
ars, and not very forward, so I think I shall succeed, Mother
and Myra will stay at home, We are all well at present,
and hope these few lines [underlined few. . . lines] will find you enjoying the
same blessing.
How many letters have you received from us? I have
written you five, I directed two to San Francisco, two to
Stockton, and sent one by William Cochran, The last I
wrote was on January 10th, since that, I have not written
because I did not know where you were, They did not
send me your letters, so I never read the two last you
wrote me until I cam home, now I shall correspond
a little more regularly, and I expect you will all improve
very fast, you ought to at the least,- I have not been
attending school since Jan 28th, since that, I have spent
two weeks in Greenville and the rest of the time in Gus-
tavus, Uncle Hezlep is quite sick, I am afraid he will not
live many years, the rest of the family are well, they have
all been very kind to me during the past winter, Uncle
especially, and I shall not forget it.
Did you know that we are the descendants of the Earl
of Clarendon, whose daughter was a greene? and that we
own a portion of Hyde Park in London, worth fifty
millions of dollar, besides Bank Stock etc.? I suspect we is [underlined suspect. . . is]
but I will try to tell the story without the flourishes, In
the days of the Puritans, three brothers by the name of
Hyde, emigrated from England to America, This proper-
ty belonged to them, and all the Hydes in America
are their descendants. In Feb a Hyde meeting was held
in Boston, Mr. Lucien Jones represented the Hartford
branch of the family, by records etc. they traced the rela-
tionship and now they must find which was the oldest
of the three brothers, and to his descendants the property